It's funny to think how a lasting relationship can stem from what seemed such an ordinary night. We had gathered at a mutual friends house to watch the popular "Project Runway". Concluding the night is when we unknowingly started it all. Small chatter between us included me complimenting her truck and both thinking the other was cute: me a skater with curly hair, her a confident pretty blonde driving a cool manual Toyota. The curly hair must have flustered her because somehow she locked the keys in the truck and we waited together until help arrived via her Dad to the rescue with the spare key. She felt embarrassed, but stuff happens and we went our separate ways only to have that short encounter stick in our thoughts. Many years ago that is how we began, not knowing the other times we had crossed paths prior: living across the boulevard from each other during high school, attending her graduation party and that we would end up being inseparable.... finally.

Upon our second round of hiking and camping in Canada's National Parks; Banff area, is where the inevitable happened. 7-25-18 : towards the end of our trip we started the 7 km assent on a familiar trail- this time to the very top! Fatigued and agreed that this was our most challenging hike completed thus far, we caught our breath gazing out at what it felt like to be on top of the world. Sharing the peaceful mountain peaks with only the horizon we noticed a perfect ridge to capture the beauty. I set my phone for a timed picture (video recording) upon a rock and walked back to her with shaking hands and no rehearsal for what came next except that it was Our time, Our way. She did say yes (after the waterworks subsided of course).